To: RadioAstronomer
Just one of the problems with Newton's law is that it assumed that the gravitational attraction was an instantaneous force.And how has that been disproven?
2,388 posted on
08/10/2003 7:12:37 PM PDT by
gore3000
(Intelligent people do not believe in evolution.)
To: gore3000
I think that he means that gravity travels at the speed of light, it is not instantaneous from one point to another.
2,391 posted on
08/10/2003 7:22:18 PM PDT by
Aric2000
(If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
To: gore3000
And how has that been disproven? The best fit we have today is that a gravitational wave propagates at the speed of light. Two experiments that validated General Relativity over Newton's theory (Law) were the measurements of the deflection of light by our sun and the precession of the orbit of the planet Mercury.
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